European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Most successful political undertaking in German Lis Lory a stable and open parliamentary democracy Hal equitably distributes great Stu left and Hal has lasted three times longer than Hitler s Reich. But a widely accepted thesis among intellectuals is that there was no genuine break Wilh the past in 1949, that old nazis helped build the now Germany poisoning its roots. Kohl who lost a brother in the War and just missed lighting in it himself has made Lithul but Only partially successful attempts to Lead his countrymen out of the past to draw what is called a scotus Ostrich or accountant s Bottom line under it. Coining to Power in 1982, he styled himself he country s first authentically postwar Chancellor and spoke of the mercy of a late  his most spectacular attempt to break t. It occurred in 1985 when he and president Reagan blundered into the ceremonial reconciliation Wreath laying at the Tilburg military cemetery where 49 Graves of nazi is troops were belatedly discovered. Turning Back emotional criticism Lis condemned to an uneasy condition of equilibrium Between East and West linked Lonato and the european Community bul also drawn inevitably to the East the key lowest Germany s late May he As much in shifting moods and fiscal impera ves in the United Stales As in anything happening on this Side of he Atlantic which is Why thoughtful germans worry inordinately when some congressman or senator angrily Calls for bringing Tho gis Home Kohl rightly Calls West Germany s ties to the United Stales existential " bul in West Germany the quest for a comfortable Homeland Ana an end to provisionally will continue making mis country an intrinsically restive and unquiet place in this con Lucy and no lha ne1 in could Well be a search without end. A never ending Story the stars and stripes Page 15